What have Chisora and Wilder said about retiring?
Questions have been raised about both Chisora and Wilder’s retirement plans in the entire build-up to their blockbuster clash.
While Chisora seems adamant about this being his final farewell to the sweet science, Wilder has ambitious plans ahead.
“It’s a sad day on this day because it’s a retirement for me, but subconsciously it’s [also] a retirement fight for [Wilder],” Chisora on The Ariel Helwani Show in March.
“He doesn’t realise it yet. It’s one of those things where he ain’t going to win the fight, so why [talk about future fights]? It’s a bow down for both of us, but he’s in denial.”
Chisora also told Queensberry Promotions: “I am not coming back.
“I will tell you why, because I don’t have any more training camps in me. That is God’s honest truth.
“It happened at the Otto Wallin fight. The training camps became harder.
“I got in the ice bath in the morning, I go in the evening, so I can sort my body out.”
Wilder, meanwhile, has his sights set on a future showdown with Oleksandr Usyk.
“[Usyk] can happen and it will happen,” the 40-year-old told Sky Sports.
“As long as I have the confidence to do what I have to do, it will happen.
“Unless he retires and if so that’s fine with me. I must accomplish what I set forth in the beginning of my career…
“Unifying the division would be an overwhelming feeling for me. That’s something that I never had the opportunity to have.”